Junior Software Developer, Frontend

HootSuite Media, Inc. • $67K — $94K *
Vancouver, BC V5K 5J9In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, with 1-2 years of software development experience (including internships).
  • Familiarity with coding conventions and testing best practices.
  • Understanding of root cause analysis for troubleshooting bugs and outages.
  • Ability to follow existing architecture concepts to enhance software performance.
  • Knowledge of basic security and compliance practices.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver low-complexity projects in line with coding and design standards.
  • Contribute to the execution of the team's roadmap and escalate risks promptly.
  • Engage in troubleshooting and collaborate on resolving complex issues.
  • Maintain effective communication with team members and stakeholders.
  • Utilize modern web technologies to enhance developer workflows.
  • Participate in enhancing CI/CD pipeline through Jenkins for product reliability.
  • Keep the codebase secure and updated via dependency management tools.

Benefits

  • Support for personal and professional growth through feedback and learning opportunities.
  • Exposure to a variety of technologies including Typescript, React, Scala, and GO.
  • Work in a cross-functional team fostering strong interpersonal relationships.
  • Engagement in team activities and collaboration in code reviews.
  • Opportunity to contribute to significant improvements in the software development lifecycle.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Junior Software Developer who can design, build, test, and ship high quality software that delivers value to our customers. You'll work on a small and agile team that continuously incorporates feedback to refine and improve the products and features you deliver. You will learn and follow established patterns and best practices and be supported in delivering high quality work as part of the team. The team will own the entire delivery lifecycle from beta releases to production ready, scalable products suitable for new and existing customers. This job is open to candidates across Canada, in provinces where we can legally hire and will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Deliver low-complexity projects ensuring alignment with coding and design standards, testing practices, and company guidelines for security, accessibility, and privacy.
  • Contribute to the successful execution of the team's roadmap by asking questions, providing input, and promptly escalating identified risks and scope changes.
  • Actively engage in team activities, working out loud, learning from peers, contributing to code reviews and documentation as you work towards achieving team goals.
  • Actively engage in troubleshooting, addressing minor bugs independently, and collaborating with senior team members to resolve more complex issues.
  • Work within a cross-functional team, fostering positive team relationships, and maintain effective communication with peers and stakeholders.
  • Use modern web technologies to have a positive impact on developer workflows and infrastructure
  • Repositories that are majority Typescript, and React and are depended upon by other development teams across the company (with exposure to a variety of other technologies such as Scala and GO services).
  • Work with Jenkins, our CI/CD platform, to improve developer experience and support delivery of a reliable, high-quality product-contributing to pipeline maintenance, optimization, and automation efforts.
  • Assist in the investigation and execution of technical initiatives that drive meaningful, sweeping improvements across our software development lifecycle-helping the team move faster and ship with greater confidence.
  • Engage with our dependency management tooling and internal package ecosystem to keep our codebase secure, current, and well-maintained-contributing to decisions around library adoption, upgrades, and deprecation.
  • Gain broad, hands-on exposure to the full spectrum of tools, technologies, and architectural decisions that underpin modern front end development-think of it as front end DevOps, where you're as comfortable with the build pipeline as you are with the product itself.


WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
  • A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and 1-2 years of experience developing and maintaining software (including co-op terms and internships) or an equivalent level of education or work experience.
  • Learn and follow existing patterns and best practices in delivering code and writing tests for individual stories.
  • Ability to learn about and use root cause analysis to identify and address bugs and outages. Follow logging, monitoring and debugging best practices in the components and classes you work on.
  • Learn and follow existing architecture concepts and best practices to extend existing software modules and components that meet system performance, modifiability, maintainability and reliability needs.
  • Learn about and follow basic security and compliance practices in daily work.
  • Follow common agile processes and continuous integration and delivery practices to ship stories and own low complexity epics/projects.
  • You can collaborate and communicate effectively within a team. Participate in technical discussions, listen actively and understand non-technical input from design and product.
  • Actively seek guidance, feedback, and learning opportunities within the team to foster personal and professional growth.
  • Display eagerness to learn and collaborate on goal-setting. Supported in creating and aligning goals with personal development.
  • Understand roadmaps and participate in delivering on them effectively by communicating risks and opportunities at the individual level.
  • Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
  • Perseverance: pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish-doesn't give up
  • Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects


WHO YOU ARE:
  • Solution seeker. You're focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward-and you don't wait to be asked.
  • Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset - you're here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn't.
  • Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
  • Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
  • Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
  • Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
  • Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team's work drives broader organizational goals.
  • Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you're responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
  • Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.


This posting is for a current vacancy for which we are actively hiring.

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Canada Pay Range For This Role

$67,700-$94,700 CAD

About HootSuite Media, Inc.

Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system's user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and TikTok. Based in Vancouver, Hootsuite has close to 1,000 staff members in 13 locations, including Toronto, London, Paris, Sydney, Bucharest, Milan, Rome and Mexico City. The company has more than 16 million users in over 175 countries.
Learn more about HootSuite Media, Inc.
Industry
Business Services
Founded
2008
* Ladders Estimates

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